Brian Meuser at Schellville Airport in Sonoma, CA was kind enough to come out and open up his hangars for a passing fellow antiquer. Brian's been working on a Rearwin 7000, and once that's done is itching to start on a Curtiss-Wright 12-W project.

It was slow at the field on a misty Sunday morning, but Brian opened up a few hangars including the home of this Porterfield 35-70 project and a Stinson 10. Schellville is a field to visit again on a sunny Saturday.

Cam Blazer has become an Antique Airfield Ambassador by donating to the Restoration Center project, and he's sent us some photos. Here's Cam's Warner powered Monocoupe, N15429, that D.J. Short is restoring at his facility near Warrensburg, MO. Cam states: "95% done, 25% to go. Getting Closer."

AAA HQ received a very interesting donation to the Restoration and Maintenance Center project on November 18:

Use this $100 for four squares at $25 each.

One for Orville Wright
One for Wilbur Wright
One for Harriet Quimby
One for Amelia Earhart

Please put our squares near the front door.
It took a while to get this to you from where we are.
It will also take a while for the donor information to get back to us.
We will check to see that our names are on the appropriate squares on the chart for the new building during our next visit.
Thank you for your kind attention to this.

Brent Taylor at HQ has responded:

Orville, Wilbur, Harriet & Amelia,

Thank you for becoming Antique Airfield Ambassadors and supporting the future APM Restoration Center. Per your request, we have placed your august group as close to the front of the hangar door as possible.

The ladies have been given plot number LL25 (Harriet) & LL26 (Amelia) while the gentlemen have plots MM25 (Orville) & MM26 (Wilbur). We will hold your deeds for these plots here at the Air Power Museum for such a time when you may be able to stop by and pick them up.

Thanks again for your support of this exciting project. We hope other aviation luminaries, such as yourselves, may become supporters of the APM Restoration Center in the future.

Brent Taylor
APM Treasurer

If you want to become an official Air Mail Pilot and have your set of wings, you'd better hurry. There are only four sets of wings left from the 2008 Fly-In, Air Mail Days. Order your set from the Antiquer's Store.

Check the Antiquer's Store for Air Mails Pins. There are also a few Air Mail Days Covers available, but supply is running short. Hurry if you want one of these limited editions.

Dennis Goodrich has published the second part of his Sights and Sounds video from the 2009 Fly-In. Thanks Dennis!

Tom Brown just finished rebuilding and returning Bill Knight's Waco RNF. Tom sent us this with photos from Lyman Hatz:

It has been a long hard pull the last two months getting 603Y finished enough to fly out of here and to Brodhead before the onset of cold weather, and or snow. The first 2 weeks of November really cooperated with higher than average temps. Bill test flew it Monday afternoon Nov. 9th about 3:30 p.m. All told we put four flights on her before dark, adjusting and tweaking between flights.

Next morning, Tuesday the 10th we blasted off for Brodhead with me following chase in the Luscombe watching for parts that might fall off. With a stop at Adams/Friendship for a look over and topping off the tanks it was on to Brodhead. The airplane appears to be about 15 mph faster than it was before rebuild. I'm not bragging, after all it was the slowest RNF in the Western hemisphere. I'm just relieved. Now that it's back home, all Bill and his right hand man Scott Burns have to do is finish those last hundred details.

Tom Brown